Abstract:
Portable electric machine (10) for stripping cork bark (92) with a sawtoothed blade (35), a device with a fork-shaped foot (50) that embraces the saw (35) that makes contact with the bark (92), a high-conduction needle (85) to be pressed into the cambium (91) and a microprocessor (61) that, in accordance with the variations in electric resistance between the tip of the saw (35), inserted in the insulating cork (92), and the electrically conducting cambium (91), determines movement of the foot (50) so that its distance from the tip of the saw, from one position to the next and moment by moment, is substantially equal to the thickness of the cork bark (92) thus permitting maximum penetration of the saw (35) while ensuring integrity of the cambium (91).
Abstract:
A log processing head (10) is provided with a top knife (22) and moveable feed means (16) and delimbing and/or debarking means (18) pushing a log (48) against said top knife (22) by means of actuators (20). In order to allow the top knife (22) to follow the contour of the log (48) without damaging a pin (40) holding the knife (22), a pivot joint (60) is used between the knife (22) and the connection of the pin (44) on the structure (12).
Abstract:
High powered lasers are used to score the bark (28) on logs (26) before they are mechanically debarked. Typical of the lasers employed are multi-kilowatt CO2 industrial lasers. A high powered laser beam (20) is brought to a focus just above the surface of the bark (28) on the log (26). A jet of compressed air is blown co-axially with the beam and facilitates the beam's formation of a narrow slot in the surface of the bark. Logs are advanced and rotated by a plurality of parallel augers (42) extending across the base of a trough (40). The lasers are positioned in a gap beneath and in between sets of augers. The beam's focus may be adjustable with respect to the bark's surface. The motion of the log with respect to a laser head produces a spiral cut along the surface of the log which slices the long fibers in the bark.
Abstract:
Portable electric machine (10) for stripping cork bark (92) with a sawtoothed blade (35), a device with a fork-shaped foot (50) that embraces the saw (35) that makes contact with the bark (92), a high-conduction needle (85) to be pressed into the cambium (91) and a microprocessor (61) that, in accordance with the variations in electric resistance between the tip of the saw (35), inserted in the insulating cork (92), and the electrically conducting cambium (91), determines movement of the foot (50) so that its distance from the tip of the saw, from one position to the next and moment by moment, is substantially equal to the thickness of the cork bark (92) thus permitting maximum penetration of the saw (35) while ensuring integrity of the cambium (91).
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for handling logs (6) to be debarked so that the surface of the logs is torn or cut by means of blades (15) moving under the logs in relation to the logs, said blades projecting upwards from the bottom (13) carrying the logs. The direction of the mutual cutting motion between the logs and the blades deviates from the longitudinal direction of the logs. The blades (15) and the logs (6) are moved in relation to each other so that for part of the time the logs are out of contact with the blades, higher up than the cutting edges of the blades, and for part of the time the logs are in contact with the cutting edges of the blades.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for removing bark when handling a trunk (A) in a timber harvester, especially in connection with lopping. To remove the bark, the axis of rotation of means (1) for feeding the trunk (A) is positioned at an angle with the longitudinal axis of the trunk in such a way that the trunk is brought into rotation about the longitudinal axis during the feed movement. The arrangement further comprises means (3) for removing bark during the simultaneous rotation movement (R) and feed movement.
Abstract:
A debarker is described, with converging blades, with hydraulic and/or penumatic control, to extract the bark from pruned branches or from branches and logs of felled trees. Small stumps obtained by dividing the pruned branches or the logs and branches of felled trees are left or not at rest during a certain time, after which they are processed in the debarker. The main part of this machine is a set of disks (3), radially driven by an hydraulic or pneumatic system (2), through which the stump is conveyed (9), axially pushed when entering the machine and pulled when going out by means of an automatic or manual feeding system (5, 6, 7, 8). The products thus obtained are clean stumps of wood and strips of bark (10) without any pieces of woody tissue. A clean debarking is thus obtained, with improvement of the operation of the downstream industries and better profitability of the bark extraction. Although specially conceived for the cork bark extraction, this machine may also be used for the extraction of other types of bark, for example, eucalyptus.